quotations about friends
A false Friend and a Shadow, attend only while the Sun shines.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poor Richard's Almanack, 1756
Friends are true twins in soul.
WILLIAM PENN
Some Fruits of Solitude
The young compliment their greatness on the number of their friends; the old, on the confidence of them.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
Friends have all things in common.
PLATO
Phaedrus
However bad a man, he will have some friends: however good, he will have some enemies.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
It's safer to have a good enemy than a bad friend.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
New friends ... can often have a better time together than old friends.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Tender Is the Night
Be a friend, and thou shalt have friends.
IVAN PANIN
Thoughts
A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON
attributed, Quotable Quotes
Friendship either finds or makes equals.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
The Moral Sayings of Publilius Syrus
The reason we have few friends in adversity, is, because we have no true ones in prosperity.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
A man's enemies are those he should endeavor first to make his friends.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
It is the duty of every individual, to be a friend to mankind, as it is his interest, that men should be friendly to him.
WELLINS CALCOTT
Thoughts Moral and Divine
You cannot expect that a friend should be like the atmosphere, which confers all manner of benefits upon you, and without which indeed it would be impossible to live, but at the same time is never in your way.
ARTHUR HELPS
Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd
It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
Notebooks
Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!
GEORGE ELIOT
The Spanish Gypsy: Book III
I have no friends, there are only people I love.
LOUIS ARAGON
response to Proust Questionaire, Livres de France, Jan. 1961
Everybody is friends when things are bad enough.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Islands in the Stream
One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
HENRY ADAMS
The Education of Henry Adams
For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother.
HOMER
The Odyssey